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Cartoonist took cheap shot at president

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Sunday August 24, 2014 9:17 AM

Once again
Dispatch Editorial Cartoonist (and Mike Ramirez wannabe) Nate Beeler proved he can be
relied upon to take any crisis or tragedy and scrawl it into a cheap shot against President Barack
Obama.

In Thursday’s cartoon, he depicted the Islamic State terrorist who beheaded journalist James
Foley instead preparing to cut off the head of a golf club, in an apparent criticism of the
president playing a round of golf after his press conference following the gruesome video release
of Foley’s execution.

Never mind the mission to rescue Foley that tragically didn’t result in the same success as the
raid that put a stop to Osama bin Laden, or other military actions the president has authorized
without any of the support-our-president spirit that Republicans insisted was just basic wartime
patriotism during President George W. Bush’s tenure.

Editorial cartoonists are expected to be satirical, but they also should be expected to be
clever and insightful. Every administration has satire-worthy issues that sharp-minded cartoonists
can skewer, notwithstanding who is in power, but Beeler’s standard approach is to, no matter how
thin the criticism, insult the president.